• U.N. support for an election system could help provide justification in the eyes of Iraqis.

    CNN: U.N. help sought on Iraq vote

  • Some would say that there is a public-interest justification in the exposure of law-breaking of any kind by a public figure, which Mr Dallaglio certainly is.

    ECONOMIST: Daft about drugs

  • Though this statute is anything but a model of clarity, it does suggest that whoever "provokes" a deadly encounter has a heavy burden of justification in claiming self-defense.

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  • Departments tend to produce reams of justification of every item in their budgets, bogging down the process.

    ECONOMIST: Public spending

  • As Jacob Gershman reported in the New York Post in June, Columbia quietly granted Massad tenure earlier this year in a secret procedure that likely was unprecedented in its lack of transparency or justification.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Terror training grounds

  • His efforts were one reason the Department of Agriculture spent this week stuttering out a justification for its sponsorship of a wine junket in California.

    WSJ: Strassel: Jumping the Sequester

  • The US government uses the non-resolution of the Palestinian conflict with Israel as its justification for refusing to accept Jewish property rights in those areas of the city.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Eternal Liberation Movement

  • It was alleged by critics that senior White House aides had revealed the information as revenge against Ms Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for an article in which he debunked some of the justification for invading Iraq.

    BBC: The history of US leaks

  • Someone whose intellect is so dizzyingly vast that he or she has the ability to articulate the justification of a logical thread resulting in a conclusion that appears almost foolish?

    FORBES: Don't Outsmart Yourself Financially (Like Krugman)

  • Justification for these pay packages is in the eye of the beholder.

    FORBES: Tricks of the trade

  • So the Dearing committee has some justification in arguing that, even after the introduction of tuition fees, state spending on higher education should continue to grow in line with national income, and that this would be a wise investment.

    ECONOMIST: Universities

  • But the RCN says it can see no justification for a decline in nursing numbers at a time of increasing demand for care, with an ageing population, and growing numbers or patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease.

    BBC: Nurses warn of 'workforce crisis' in NHS

  • She surmises that two levels of self-justification probably were going on in Madoff's mind.

    NPR: Author: Bravado Drives Ponzi Schemes

  • Pennington here is engaging in a nice spot of public reasoning, voicing a partial justification for exit-based institutions.

    FORBES: Mark Pennington on Hayek and Habermas

  • In short, political justification must not begin with deriving the rationality of rule-following from a teleological conception of practical reason.

    FORBES: The Order of Public Reason

  • He can then demand justification from individual syndicates that seem out of line in setting premiums too low or terms too loose.

    ECONOMIST: Lloyd's of London

  • But Mr Straw said he "could not see much difference" in the idea of replacing the common law defence of "justification" with the statutory defence of "truth".

    BBC: Falconer: Libel plans are 'impressive' and 'worthwhile'

  • Mr Obama's backers, in fact, can with some justification feel betrayed by the presence of so many figures from the Clinton regime: Mr Summers and Mr Geithner served at the Treasury then, and Mr Orszag was on the NEC.

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  • In the real world of human family relations there can be no justification for government to impose this burden by force of law.

    FORBES: Generational Accounting and Japan's Social Welfare State

  • Earlier this year these two countries used this achievement as a justification for hosting a special summit of friends of the constitution in Madrid.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • It says those signing "condemn the inciting of violence, its justification... and its exploitation in any form".

    BBC: Egypt politicians condemn violence in Al-Azhar meeting

  • "There is no justification for massive pay and bonus awards in financial institutions, the most important of which are guaranteed or owned or have been rescued by the taxpayer, " Mr Cable said.

    BBC: Darling dismisses pay commission

  • Last week the head of one UK private equity group, SVG's Nick Ferguson, said the claims may have some justification, when he admitted that some of those running and investing in private equity were paying tax at a lower level than cleaners.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | US eyes private equity tax change

  • Organisations including Ash Wales and the British Heart Foundation told AMs that they believed there was no justification for lifting the ban in Wales and that alternative means could be found of filming smoking scenes, including artificial cigarettes and computer generated imagery (CGI).

    BBC: Casualty

  • Therefore, when my staff visits, we will most likely stare at each other in a desperate attempt to find some justification for wasting your time and paying the salary of the IRS employee.

    FORBES: Dear IRS: A Tax Pro Fires Back

  • "I can see no justification whatever for rejecting the balance of probabilities and substituting reasonable belief, especially in a case involving the liberty of a subject, " he said.

    BBC: New anti-terrorism measures attacked by peers

  • It is widely agreed that the root and cause of honour killing is a complex, historical phenomenon which has no justification in Islam's holy book, the Koran, and which has also been known to occur elsewhere in the world and among other religions.

    BBC: Jordan's dilemma over 'honour killings'

  • The justification for tax cuts here is that they prompt people to expand their horizons in the world of work.

    FORBES: Mitt Romney Is No Keynesian

  • Defenders of the oath reply that the goal of maximising shareholder value has become a justification for short-termism and, in particular, rapid personal enrichment.

    ECONOMIST: A Hippocratic oath for managers

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